Reducing operational costs and increasing business productivity are high priorities for enterprises in the current economic climate. This has raised interest in a number of information management projects ranging from dynamic data warehousing, master data management, application migrations/consolidations, operational BI, and services-oriented architecture environments. For these initiatives to be successful, there is a common, pervasive need for a steady, reliable stream of data from a diverse range of data sources while not impacting existing production systems or adding any business or IT risk. A key factor in the solution is effectively managing enterprise data through the timely capture and delivery of information as it happens. This not only helps reduce both business and IT costs, but also increases visibility into lines of business to help optimize/streamline processes to minimize business risk. This led to the IBM acquisition of DataMirror.